Your identity in Christ is Hidden in Christ
Col 3:1-4 If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God: have your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth; for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God. When the Christ is manifested who is our life, then shall *ye* also be manifested with him in glory.
1Corinthians 15:10 But by God’s grace I am what I am; and his grace, which was towards me, has not been vain; …
That’s good news and bad news for the present.
You basically have several identities: your real one according to God and your false one(s) according to the lens of a multitude of persons that are caught in a temporary ideology/spirit-trap that see you as proof on the hoof of their own, deceived outlook on reality and think nothing of using you to prove that outlook no matter the consequences to you within their own deceptions of free will.
The scary part for those of you who think of yourselves as both free willed and at least somewhat moral is that even law enforcement goes through waves of ideology in which each new wave displaces the last, each law enforcer within that new wave sees the populace, of which you are merely one, as that exact proof on the hoof of their law enforcement methodology and ideology/spirit-trap and all within the lie of free will. They will set you up, entrap you, seduce you and do anything else they can do to prove who they think you really are just to validate their job and to make themselves look clever to others in an overall chase of better and advanced careers within that new ideology in addition to a new Administration of it. That’s in addition to law enforcement serving an ideology that needs quotas of faces and not individuals: black law enforcers want white criminals; some white law enforcers want black criminals; some Christian law enforcers want non-Christian criminals and all non-Christian law enforcers want Christian criminals.
Everyone wants a proven hypocrite from their own system/ideology or what can be represented to be a mere passing ideology as a criminal as a representative of the Other/Invalid Ideology/Religion especially for the propaganda value of such to a population deceived they have free will in the midst of a struggle with various shades of ideology/spirits within that one meta-lie of human beings having free will. And that is quite independent from the reality that non-Christians are indeed criminals before God who are in need of forgiveness and grace and they prove that guilt by the life they live and seduce others into and that non-Christian spirits when forced on a Christian populace raise the crime rate exponentially and that non-Christian persons are by far the major perpetrators of crimes and the owners of establishments and organizations that seduce others into wreck and ruin in such a mixed society –in the middle of all the waves of law enforcement philosophy and what is considered justice one moment by non-Christians is considered injustice by those same persons later on.
Having rejected heavenly justice to get away from their own guilt, non-Christians will perpetrate no end of injustice and grossly hypocritical systems that constantly invalidate themselves and their internal logic in addition to merely speaking a public logic and being ruthless against the people in complete disregard of their stated doctrines while having as an explanation a rubric of emotion that makes them look bad as being ‘hypocritical’ to give themselves a platform of rise and fall from their own lies of the ‘grace’ of that system.
In Christ, your identity is hidden from the world. That’s good news for you on several fronts. You don’t know who you really are other than saved and a recipient of grace. Neither does anyone else other than those who God shows.
God doesn’t always withhold that truth of who you are from evildoers and those who loath Jesus Christ. Satan knows a small part of who we are and yet benefits not from knowing.
But to all appearances to most, you are just a representative cipher on a page written by someone you will never meet, offend or befriend and you will be arbitrarily placed as a friend or foe in a column depending on a whim of ideology within a multi-everything society that has within it competing ideologies/spirits all of which have different definitions of WHAT a human being IS so as to parse out idealized limited resources according to that same number of rubrics of what is ‘fair’ towards the idealization of the moment of what a human being is.
That situation is being forced on you from outside the USA and from within.
People who are glad to receive a little money or a position or a simple break for themselves in some fashion as victims of meta-lies that are the current definition of money, the lie of free will and the lie that only non-creating speech exists in total reality, will participate in that evil beyond anything they understand, esp. if they were the latest criminal class within an ideology that has been supplanted by a new one and they are both portrayed to be proved innocent ( of even being a sinner before God within new doctrine ) and get paid to teach other people they are innocent ‘too’ as pointing out the newly defined ‘worse criminal than me’ . You, in all that, are just grist for that mill to pump out emotional fodder. They already pretend they can do anything and call it justice to get that title of Innocent for themselves.
But in all that, those things perpetrated against you are lies unless your flesh has actually wrought wickedness. You can’t get out of your own individuality. No one can. It is inviolate. In Christ, you cannot lose your salvation and your identity because you cannot be un-born/reverse-wrought from being new creature in Jesus Christ. Satan has no such weapons or ability and neither do you in addition to God having sworn He will bless you and hold you in His hand.
John 10:27-30 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give them life eternal; and they shall never perish, and no one shall seize them out of my hand. My Father who has given them to me is greater than all, and no one can seize out of the hand of my Father. I and the Father are one.
But God has also Said:
Ecc 8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; and there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
Ecc 9:10-12 Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all. For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
So: be well warned: when you are deceived that many ‘faiths’ and ‘truths’ actually exist as equivalent with Christ and you set them up in your own nation, you are setting up multiple waves of injustice and ruin against yourself as dehumanizing and de-new creationing you as a lie/false definition of what you are AND the means of Satan controlling you politically via competition between lies about those definitions as law enforcement equally with a rise in actual crimes. It is a very dangerous game to play ‘What’s My Crime?” in the midst of setting up multiple lies about “What IS Crime?” in the midst of playing “What am I?” even though all three questions are necessary for a complete occult/demonic war against you in the guise of you being able to lose your identity and or make a new one per the new ideology/spirit.
Col 2:4-12 And I say this to the end that no one may delude you by persuasive speech. For if indeed in the flesh I am absent, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ. As therefore ye have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in him, rooted and built up in him, and assured in the faith, even as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. See that there be no one who shall lead *you* away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily; and ye are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and authority, in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ; buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with him through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen